| It is true that they are pleasant all these small villages
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| All these towns, these hamlets, these localities, these cities
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| With their fortified castles, their churches, their beaches
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| They only have one weak point and that is being inhabited
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| And it is to be inhabited by people who watch
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| The rest with contempt from their ramparts
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| The race of chauvinists, bearers of cockades
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| The happy fools who were born somewhere
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| The happy fools who were born somewhere
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| Cursed be these children of their motherland
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| Impaled once and for all on their steeple
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| Who show you their towers, their museums, their town hall
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| Make you see homeland till you squint
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| Whether they come out of Paris or Rome or Sète
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| Or devil vauvert or Zanzibar
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| Or even of Montcuq they flatter themselves mazette
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| The happy fools who were born somewhere
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| The happy fools who were born somewhere
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| The sand in which, cozy, their ostriches
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| Bury your head, you can't find finer
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| As for the air they use to inflate their bladders
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| Their soap bubbles are divine breath
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| And little by little here they go
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| Neck up thinking the dung made by
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| Their even wooden horses make everyone jealous
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| The happy fools who were born somewhere
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| The happy fools who were born somewhere
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| It is not a common place that of their birth
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| They wholeheartedly pity the unlucky
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| The clumsy little ones who didn't have the presence
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| The presence of mind to see the light of day among them
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| When the tocsin sounds on their precarious happiness
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| Against strangers all more or less barbarous
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| They come out of their hole to die in war
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| The happy fools who were born somewhere
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| The happy fools who were born somewhere
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| My God, how good it would be on the earth of men
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| If we met this incongruous race there
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| This importunate race that abounds everywhere
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| The race of the people of the land, of the locals
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| That life would be beautiful in all circumstances
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| If you hadn't pulled all those jerks out of nothing
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| Perhaps proof of your non-existence
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| The happy fools who were born somewhere
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| The happy fools who were born somewhere |